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MGARIGLES ESCAPE.
STORIES As TO HOW IT WAS MANAGED.
ILLINOIS KUKLUX EXCITEMENT.
THE AMEER'S PROCLAMATION.

THE AMEER'S PROCLAMATION.
McGARIGLE's ESCAPE.
How the Detectives were Outwisted-
The Captains story.
CHICAGO August LA late dispatch from Port
Huron, Mich, gives another account OF McGari-
giles landing In Canada. 1t appears that when
the tug Orient approached the schooner Blake,
which was the last In the tow OF four vessels the
schooner Marsh ahead. dropped the tow line and
the Blake dropped rapidly astern. Her captain
rushed forward, together with his crew. and raised
tremendous row for couple OF L.inutes keeping
While McGarsIe who had Seen transferfed rs to the
Marsh In the Straits, as reported some days ago.
was bundled into a yawl and being sculled
the ruse every effort was made to catch the yawl.
but 1t got into shoal water safely before they
could a reach 1T IL ~, NcGarge Jumped ashore and and
schooners Jeered at the men on the tug re-
porter for Chicago paper then went on board the
schooner Marsh. whose captain. Freer. told the
following story:
CAPT. FREHRS STORY.
"While we were loading a cargo OF cedar in the
had seen anything OF the Blake. said had not,
and he then told me that they were detectives,
and that they believed that McGarigle was aboard
know McGarigle by reputation, though I had
never seen him but once. 1 told the men that he
them Se a Gas pp wo anr
The entire crowd came aboard went down into the
cabin, and opened bottle OF my choice cherry
deck for minute and saw the Blake coming along
down the Straits before ine breeze or wind
Wen, don't believe In harboring criminals or any
thing OF that kind, but on the impulse OF the mo-
ment, I thought that there was a fellow
being with a wife and several children, who
done and was trying to ieep % out of the peniten.
t1ary. hardly know what made me do 1t, but /
slipped back into the cabin. and, without saying
some more bottles. The detectives renshed the
stun, and they had rollicking jolly time OF 1t.
Of them could have told a fishinE smack from a
steamboat but by this time the Blake was out or
sight. Wen, finished loading and started down
oyerhauled the Blake on Lake Huron. and told
them that Officers were laying for her. few
in the starboard quarter OF my vessel AT the
same time
and the vessel drirted apart. 1 recognized him as
face he begged me to put him ashore. told him
l would, and did 1 never In my life saw such
When Your tus came aonssiae @ he W. was s'i In e the
cabin shaking like man with the palsy. He
thought the tug had been sent out TO capture him,
taken alive Not that he would have shown any
resistance. but am pretty sure he would have
jumped over board and drowned himself before he
the boAt and told MIN Se were ready he seemed
paralyzed and could hardly move. dumped down
into the cabin and helped him on deck and steaded
him until he got into the boat"
While Capt. Freer was telling this story the tow
had rounded To, and when this point was reached
was picking up the Blake, which had come down
the river under sail. AS she came alongside OF the
Marsh the reporter jumped aboard her and asked
Capt. Irewin to give some account OF how he came
a fpl "A
ada. He was very reluctant, and ut flrst refused
to say word about 1t. After good deal OF coax
Ing he said:
WHAT CAPT. ntwN SAYS
"When got TO Chicago friend Of mine came to
me and asked me II would take a passenger TO
Canada, landing him at the first convenient point.
After some hesitation on my part and much urg-
ing on his consented, providing that he would
not tell me anything about the party. ! suspected
trouble and did not want to know anything that
might get me inte a scrape. Well, was 70 lev
hun know when would be ready TO sail. and Sat
urday afternoon met him IN buggy In 5th ave.
nue.. We drove around and arranged with him
to have his friend meet me that night ut the cigar
store at the corner OF Bush and Michi-
gan streets l also told him when the vessel
would be ready, and said would drop down the
river and lie at the north pier until the party who
was TO be known as Williams showed up at the
appointed place. I cleared al barge of11ce at g
O'Clock, and then went over to the cigar store. A
the description given me came In. asked him II
his name was Williams. He nodded his head, and
we tOwed out and got along all right only the
wind had been tantalizing during almost the
entire voyage"
capt Irewin confirmed the story Of the master Of
the schooner Higgle, as to meeting the Blake of
ManiStee. He would make no definite admissions
regarding the person who arranged Tor McGarigle's
passage. In nearly all OF his conversation he
Strengthen the suspicion that DR.. st. john and
Janitor Dell knew more about the escape OF Nc
Garigle than any one else In Chicago
N'GARIGLE WORN OUT.
then hac 81 N a or
considerable search found McGarigie,. who ap-
peared terribly changed His features are hag-
preston. 81 am worn out with worry aud excite
ment," he said, ''and IL would be simply torture
for me to comply to the extent you desire. L am
sick and need rest SO badly that must ask you TO
wait until tomorrow. Say for me, however, that
/ viii he back In Chicago In less than three
a rascaIiy thief. This Investigation that is now
being held will develope my Innocence OF any cor
rupI act ana Will convince the people OF Chicago
that In spite OF all the Squealing' that Is being
made In court am not implicated In any crooked
transactions. The worst that can be said OF me is
aaa To- O
Il stuck to my fingers 1 am poor man to-day"
McGarigle said he
PLANNED THE ESCAPE HIMSELF,
and regrets that he was Obliged to impose on the
generosity Of Sheriff Matson In the way he did.
III stayed in jail" he said, ut was absolutely
Ny system GOULD not stand that, and it became
escape presented itself and embraced it."
THE OWNER OF THE BLAKE ARRESTED.
CHICAGO. August 1.-Dr. ST. John, the owner of
the schooner Blake, and who is believed TO have
personally assisted McGargle to escape, was ar
rested this morning at the breakfast table by In
spector Bonfield. The doctor was at once taken
before magistrate, and, waiytng examination
furnished ball for $4,000, ID. b. Fisk becoming
surety. A warrant was out for St Johns supposed
assistant in the escape DR.. Dell. He was found at
the county hospital Complaining OF being sick. A
guard was left with Dell unt0 It could be aScer-
tanned whether he was In q condition to be moved
DR.. ST. John waived examination In accordance
with the advice Of his attorney, W. e. Foster, OF
anarchist-trial nOtoriety. Mr. Fisk, the wholesale
milliner who went on DR.. St Johns bail, schedules
property aggregattng six millions
The SaEnia Police Can't Find Him.
A telegram from Sarnia, Ont, filed at O'Clock
this morning, saysinstructions have been received
from states Attorney Grtnnell OF Chicago, and
the chief OF police TO arrest McGai1gle on an In
dictment issued at Montreal The Sarnia chief OF
police has not been able to md him, and the sup
position Is that he has left town.
Jake sharp Seriously HI.
NEW YORK, August Jacob sharp suffered